Java 388
Merry Christmas!
Important! This is a non-canon Java strip. Because Java only updates once a week I rarely get a chance to sync Java plots with real-world Holidays. Also, time passes much slower in the Java-verse. So, Java has still been in the coffee shop for only one Christmas, the one that he accidentally missed by overdosing on espresso and falling asleep for two days. This does not officially count as Java’s second Christmas in the coffee shop. Why is this important? I dunno.
Eventually I will probably reach an end to Kickman… once he and Grayhawk are brutally murdered trying to liberate Hero City. After that I might also retire the Real Superheroines and make Java a daily comic. Then I could probably publish a new Java book every year instead of every seven years. Maybe. Just considering my future options.
Today’s 12 Days of Coffee Java Jaguar strip is being uploaded on Christmas Eve from my current home in Oceanside, California where I am taking care of Ragnar the Italian Mastiff. He is a great big bear of a dog.
Be sure to sing the lyrics rather than read them. I went to great lengths to try to keep the rhythm and cadence the same as the classic song. Surely this will win me a Grammy or a something.
Also, 5 Kick Points to the first person to tell me which of these civet samurai is not like the others.
Ignoring the differences between right-and-left handed civets, the one in the bottom left corner is bounding without “movels.”
Actually, not the difference I was looking for, but still I award you 2 points for spotting that. Plus an additional 2 points for teaching me the word “movels.”
Wow, Kickman’s getting Holmes’d.
(The 10th civet has an unwrapped pommel)
That’s it! 3rd civet from the right has a hilt that is bare steel. Does that make him the baddest of the 12 samurai? I think it might… 5 Kick Points for Archives.
On a professional note, I must share that I’m now the lawyer for a coffee company, Grumpy Coffee. Taking the gig, I thought deeply about whether I would be clawed for temerity…
That’s pretty awesome! I hope as a perk you can get a free daily Grumpaccino.